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On the 22d of November, 1855, a small company of us--three gentlemen and two ladies--left New York harbor in the schooner Louisa Dyer, of 150 tons burden, bound to the island of Jamaica. By nightfall we had lost sight of the last faint trace of New Jersey soil. New Jersey is s...
On the 22d of November, 1855, a small company of us--three gentlemen and two ladies--left New York harbor in the schooner Louisa Dyer, of 150 tons burden, bound to the island of...
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